Physics · CUI Lahore

Physics used in medicine: the radiation that treats cancer, and the scanners that see inside the body.

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Treat and see

Medical physics applies physics techniques in medicine, most clearly in cancer care: radiotherapy planning and quality assurance, imaging, and radiation protection.

Radiotherapy
External-beam treatment and brachytherapy
Imaging
X-ray, CT, MRI and PET scanning
Nuclear medicine
Gamma cameras and radioactive tracers
Protection
Radiation safety and quality assurance

Radiotherapy

  • Radiotherapy planning
  • External-beam radiotherapy
  • Brachytherapy
  • 3D conformal radiotherapy
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What we study

Every topic the group works on, filed by what it does for the patient. Point at one to see the machine; choose one to ask us about it.

  1. Radiotherapy planningTreat
  2. External-beam radiotherapyTreat
  3. BrachytherapyTreat
  4. 3D conformal radiotherapyTreat
  5. Intensity-modulated therapyTreat
  6. Linear acceleratorsTreat
  7. X-ray imagingSee
  8. CT scanningSee
  9. MRISee
  10. PETSee
  11. Gamma camerasSee
  12. Nuclear medicineSee
  13. Quality assuranceProtect
  14. Radiation protectionProtect
  15. Image guidanceNext
  16. 4D motion managementNext
  17. Particle therapyNext
  18. Compact, cheaper machinesNext

Where physics meets patients

An Elekta Compact medical linear accelerator
Accelerator · Elekta CompactRadiotherapy · Linac · CC BY-SA 4.0Photo: Narenfox
An MRI scanner in a hospital room in Jaipur
MRI scanner · JaipurHospital · MRI · CC BY-SA 4.0Photo: GeorgeWilliams21
A PET scanner
PET · HospitalPositron emission · Scanner · CC BY 2.0Photo: Liz West
A gamma camera detector head used in nuclear medicine
Gamma camera · IAEANuclear medicine · Camera · CC BY 2.0Photo: IAEA Imagebank

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If you want physics that ends at a patient's bedside, look here. Physics has contributed to health since the birth of medicine, and today it is most visible in cancer care.

Medical physicists plan and check radiotherapy, run imaging and keep radiation safe. Much of the last century's progress came from focusing radiation on the tumour and delivering it more effectively.

Linear accelerators, gamma cameras, CT, MRI and PET scanners all came from physics, and there is still room to improve them: image guidance, four-dimensional motion management, particle therapy, and cheaper, more compact machines.

Pick the area that interests you below and write to us.

Medical Physics Research GroupDepartment of Physics, CUI Lahore

Which area interests you?
  • Focus and deliver radiation more effectively to the tumour target volume.
  • Improve treatment with image guidance, four-dimensional motion management and particle therapy.
Email the group about radiotherapy

medical.physics@cuilahore.edu.pk

The group

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Publications are on the department's research page